Exploring the Plains States Through Literature - (Exploring the United States Through Literature) by Carolyn S Brodie (Paperback)

About the Book

Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to study individual states. Each volume covers a different geographic area and presents selected materials that represent the uniquely rich and varied history, diversity, geography, industries, resources, famous people, and contemporary culture of each state in that region. Much more than a series of detailed bibliographies, the volumes in the Exploring the United States through Literature series also describe classroom-tested activities that directly relate to each source.

Book Synopsis

Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to study individual states. Each volume covers a different geographic area and presents selected materials that represent the uniquely rich and varied history, diversity, geography, industries, resources, famous people, and contemporary culture of each state in that region. Much more than a series of detailed bibliographies, the volumes in the Exploring the United States through Literature series also describe classroom-tested activities that directly relate to each source.

Review Quotes

"Start choosing titles for whole-class and enrichment reading by using the seven volume Oryx Press Exploring the United States through Literature [series]."-NJEA Review

?Comprehensive and well-organized....planning help for teachers as well as user-friendly resource for students working on state reports....Public and school libraries will want to purchase the entire series.?-School Library Journal

?Each volume in the soon-to-be-seven-volume series explores a different geographic region, identifying resources - print and nonprint, fiction and nonfiction, contemporary and folkloric - to enhance a thematic literature study of the United States. The series is well-done, a must-have teacher and librarian resource.?-The Apple Peddler

?Start choosing titles for whole-class and enrichment reading by using the seven volume Oryx Press Exploring the United States through Literature [series].?-NJEA Review

"Comprehensive and well-organized....planning help for teachers as well as user-friendly resource for students working on state reports....Public and school libraries will want to purchase the entire series."-School Library Journal

"Each volume in the soon-to-be-seven-volume series explores a different geographic region, identifying resources - print and nonprint, fiction and nonfiction, contemporary and folkloric - to enhance a thematic literature study of the United States. The series is well-done, a must-have teacher and librarian resource."-The Apple Peddler

About the Author

CAROLYM BRODIE is assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She is coauthor of Many Voices: Multicultural Literary Experiences for Youth (Highsmith Press, 1992), a book based on the Virginia Hamilton Conference held each spring at Kent State University. She contributed the sections on Ohio and Arkansas for the Exploring the Great Lakes States through Literature and Exploring the Southeast States through Literature volumes, respectively, in Oryx's Exploring the United States through Literature Series.